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Thursday, September 13, 2007: Waves: Small. Water clarity: Ideal – though approaching too clear in some sites. Water temps: Dip to 70 – 72. Winds: None for early day, could see south by day’s end.

Bait run continues to make news in its own right. Major mullet (some pods containing fish averaging 6 inches) are running river-like.…

Burgers, Bull and Tortured Fluke

BURGER A-SALT ON COP: This is just a quick sidebar jaunt, since this story kinda cracks me up – and makes me very thirsty for…

Tuesday, September 11, 2007: Waves: 2-3 foot south swell. Water clarity: Fair, some discoloration. Water temps: Mid-70s.

It lit up in Holgate today, despite cloudiness and even some rain spritzes. With winds honking south, then howling west, there was enough bait moving around to feed all of Thailand. I have no idea what that means but it…

Monday, September 10, 2007. Waves: Fairly strong 3-4 foot medium-period swell from departing Gabrielle. Water clarity: Excellent. Water temps: Toasty 75 to 77.

Ideal conditions today as winds remained light. A wholesale effort was made to cash in on the last day of fluking. Boats zipped out to very deep water and successes in some instances. Good fluking was also had near reefs. Here’s one success story:

“THREE PEAT!!!! Almost. No 7 seven pound fluke, but a 23.5" 5.26lb., 21"…

Wednesday, September 05, 2007: Waves: Small but potentially building with some tropical weather just to our south (not far from Hatteras). Water clarity: Ideal. Winds: Light offshore going to light onshore; ideal. Water temps: Now approaching upper 70s; I took a 77.9 yesterday late.

I will be out on an archeological dig today and onto…

Making Nice and Seeing Things

BE A NICE SURFCASTER: Anymore it seems the summer season stops on a dime – landing right next to the cash register that symbolizes Labor Day Weekend – then re-flares virtually every weekend for the following couple months.…

Friday, August 31, 2007: Waves: Building 2-3 foot easterly ground swell; smaller northerly wind swell. Water clarity: Very good. Water temps: Mid-70s, highest yesterday was 77.

Warmest water of the year has moved in. North winds will keep the water balmy. Waves could pick up today as groundswells from a couple offshore disturbances mix with…

Don’t you just hate time warps?

The cosmos does a belch and just like that the time period between Memorial Day and Labor Day, which is supposed to run something like 14 weeks, is over in just under a couple weeks.

Sure, to the untrained eye it looks like we had a full summer, based on inaccurate measuring tools like clocks, calendars and…

Wednesday, August 29, 2007: Waves: 1-3 feet out of the north. Water clarity: Excellent.

Sorry reports were sketchy for a couple days there. I was actually writing my butt off for the Labor Day Weekend issue of The SandPaper. In my weekly…

Monday, August 27, 2007: Waves: 2-4 foot swell, generally easterly but touch of north windswell. Water clarity: Good.

The fishing has been very much to the liking of the Slowskys, those tortoises that work for Comcast -- and like everything comatose or slower. Our angling slowness harkens back to the after-age of the long storm of last week.…

Saturday update: Early Afternoon. The combining of scalding hot air and a cool ocean created some very trying times for boats that zipped out early today then ran into water-top fog so thick at least one boat ran aground on LBI. Fortunately, most boat anglers started out the inlets, saw the zero visibility ahead and discretely headed back in. later inn the day much…

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Waves: Very persistent wave action via a 4-foot (larger sets) easterly long-period ground swell. Yesterday was honking out there , wave-wise. I was doing volleyball on the beach in Harvey Cedars and the combination of large swell, days of onshore winds and astronomical conditions had set waves…

Friday, August 24, 2007: Waves: Still very sizeable. Water clarity: fair. Winds: Around to the south – where they’ll stay parked for the entire weekend.

Well, the sun broke through late yesterday and since then it hasn’t wasted any time…